Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-03-08
THE RAILROAD INVESTIGATION.
What Senator ingalls, Says About a
Union Depot and Its Location.

AS stated in yesterdays STAR the subcommittee
of the Senate District committee appointed to in
veStigate during the recess the subject of steam
and street railroads in Washington fixed the 18th
of November for assembling to hear witnesses Mr.
White the clerk Of the committee, was instructed
to communicate with the authorities OF various
cities to learn what is thought OF the result OF
periments with cable and with electricity for mo-
tive power. The officers OF cable and electric rail-
road companies are also to be communicate WITH
The District commissioners are to be invited to
make suggestions and the officials of the Balti-
more and Ohio and the Pennsylvania Railroad
companies to submit whatever they may have to
say against proposition to clear certain streets
and avenues Of their tracks and their cars and to
submit propositions looking to the establishment
OF a union depot.
81 am greatly in favor of union depot myself"
said Senator Ingalls, to Post reporter yesterday
''There is plenty of ground south OF the Capitol
for union depot, and think that few blocks
suitable location. But. whether we are TO have a
union depot Or separate depots and should remove
the OF the Baltimore and Ohio road, the Metro
politan and Washington branches OF the road must
be made To join outside the city, instead of inside
at Massachusetts avenue. and the two branches
must enter the city by single line. There is no
excuse for the double nuisance. Then, having
made its junction somewhere outside the bound
airy. the next consideration is the most convenient
road to the union depot or to the Baltimore and
Ohio depot, II we are not to have union depot.
Then should certainly make the PENNSYLVANIA
company stop short several blocks southwark. iu-
stead OF running right UP to Pennsylvania ave. Ii
there are to be two depOtS / should have them
placed so that one company would not have an
advantage over the other in the matter OF being
convenient TO traffic. II it was lry to make
the Baltimore and Ohio company hide its depot in
back street there l, no reason why the PennSyl-
vania company should not be made to remove its
depot down to, say, the junction OF Maryland and
Virginia avenues. This would clear 9Th street of
the tracks. which now make no thOroughfare' of
what should be the principal thOroughfare down
to the wharves, and 1t would restore that public
cut in two by the Pennsylvania railroad running
up 9th street, and on OF the most prominent
sections OF it stands that Baltimore and Potomac
depot
"Then you would have the Mall cleared?"
certainly. the Mall should be cleared. henif
1t Is intended, as has been proposed, to make an
avenue running from the Capitol front to the
Washington monument, the project will not be
marred. as it now is by that railroad blocking the
way. The Pennsylvania railroad ought never to
breaks up completely what would otherwise be a
continuous garden running from the Capitol to the
Old Naval observatory. 1t was lucky thing for
the Pennsylvania company when Congress in
1871, passed act fairly giving up the city to it
without charge OF a cent for the privilege. 1t
cost that company some IS 600 COO to enter Phia-
delpha, but not cent TO come up into the neaIt
OF Washington, lay its lines upon the main streets
and avenues and plant its depot On the Mall"
The Earl of LOnSlae mas been sued for breach of
contract by member OF Violet CamerOnS COM
pany.